Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration Between Health and Education to Improve Population Health: Workshop Summary

by Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement

Research based on decades of experience in the developing world has identified educational status, especially the status of the mother, as a major predictor of health outcomes and that the literature indicates that the gradient in health outcomes by educational attainment has steepened over the last four decades across the United States. Since the 1990s, while the average life expectancy in the United States has been steadily increasing, life expectancy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309314224
• ISBN13: 9780309314220
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"